National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.
Edward SapirLanguage failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.
Elie WieselIf language had been the creation, not of poetry, but of logic, we should only have one.
Friedrich HebbelMy plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
Elfriede Jelinek